Very cool to see Stuart Dybek represented 😎 - the stories of his I've read are great. There is a clip of Stuart Dybek reading his story 'Cordoba', and it remains one of my favourites. I think it is on either soundcloud or KZread. He is great reading his own material. True storyteller. Really nice to see Solzhenitsyn's 'Cancer Ward'. Looks like a nice copy. My copy is a shredded paperback I picked up in a charity shop. If I take it from my shelf now it may just disintegrate. It's a brilliant book that has stayed with me years on.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. I haven't seen/heard that Dybek reading so will definitely seek it out. Cheers Eamonn

Did you like fortune smiles? I loved that story about Kurt Cobain ... love Denis Johnson so great to see him featured! RIP

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

Yes I did. Due for re-read probably as it's been a good five years. Need to follow up on that author, not sure what he's done since.

When I bought my house I immediately set up an Ikea Wall of Books too. I just need to borrow your dad to secure them properly so we aren't dicing with death every time we stand in front of them. If he is ever in Australia with his drill maybe he can swing by.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

I'm sure it can be arranged if it includes an all expenses paid outback tour?

You softened my rage praising the excellent North Water soon after, if only cormac had written to your taste!

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

I think I was praising Solar Bones but North Water is good as well, haha

@7DAYS_ATSEA

Жыл бұрын

@@CurtisBooksandFilms my attention span. Haha. Maybe I'll look at solar bones I remember it doing the rounds

I’m hoping to read all of Denis Johnson’s novels - inspired by how good Train Dreams was. Nothing has yet lived up to that for me unfortunately. I needed a trigger warning on this video though - what kind of order are they in!!

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

Alphabetical! Although there are some out of order (as you say) as some of the shelves are too short to house taller paperbacks/hardbacks unfortunately.

Tom Wolfe!!!! ❤️ I picked up Liberation Day last week at a bookstore and I'm not sure Saunders is for me. I keep trying but never connecting.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

There were only 1 or 2 stories in Liberation Day that I really liked. The rest was too much of Saunders doing Saunders.

@7DAYS_ATSEA

Жыл бұрын

@@CurtisBooksandFilms right felt kinda twee/obvious/goofy/ too intentionally obtuse

Was that that Dutch novel the evenings!? Oh my. I love that book I've never seen it on KZread before haha I hate when people compare it to salinger

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

It was! You're right to recoil at that comparison. He's no Salinger.

Gotta get you into Naipaul, think you'd like enigma of arrival and bend in river (oops I posted before seeing him on your shelves)

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

And yet I still haven't read him. Will try to prioritise this year.

Roth is great, probably very American but try out his later book Nemesis and American pastoral and of course the ghost writer/portnoy/sabbath

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

I look forward to your shelf tour response/take down, sir

@7DAYS_ATSEA

Жыл бұрын

@@CurtisBooksandFilms I disassembled most of them to renovate but will do, get to rub in all my library of America's 😈

Enjoyed the tour, did you finish Tomb of Sand?

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching. I did finish Tomb of Sand... the less said the better I think.

@chippytea4319

Жыл бұрын

​@@CurtisBooksandFilmsthat made me chuckle, I put it down after a while I couldn't finish it.. Looking forward to the non fiction wall 👍

@CurtisBooksandFilms

Жыл бұрын

@@chippytea4319 Glad I'm not the only one who didn't get on with it. Felt like everyone in the universe loved it but me.

@7DAYS_ATSEA

Жыл бұрын

@@CurtisBooksandFilms i saw a review and knew not to pick up, felt who's afraid of arundhati Roy?

Missing your voice on Booktube. Please switch on a camera and tell us how you're doing and what you're reading.

@CurtisBooksandFilms

6 ай бұрын

thanks Heather, I keep thinking about it...

@heathergregg9975

6 ай бұрын

Well, kind thoughts don't help your fans hear you! Grab a few books you've liked or are about to read, switch on a camera, speak to it. Listen back, if it makes any sense at all, upload it. None of us is working to BBC standards, it's a chat about books with friends. (Even the immaculate Britta Boehler makes bloopers - and showed them on her video "6 years on Booktube" uploaded May 2022. Total brainfades and some blue language) Even after uploading your vids, you can always delete any.@@CurtisBooksandFilms

@Wilsonn_esquire

3 ай бұрын

@@CurtisBooksandFilms I quite concur!